This particular video is an interesting one (besides the copious amounts of eye candy) seeing that it almost didn’t take place to begin with. As Rick Ross told MTV:

“To be honest, everybody thought about their safety,” Ross said of Def Jam and others’ initial reaction to his idea of having Gil Green shoot the video in the hometown of the late, notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. “Everybody got on laptops, Googled. First thing that came up was ‘car bombs,’ ‘hostages,’ this, that and all that. I told them, ‘We got some good friends over there. It’s a beautiful spot.’ Even though I’m really gassing them [at that point], they rolled with me. They believed in my concept.”

I’ll spare you the endless punchlines Rick set himself up for in that excerpt alone for the simple fact the video turned out rather nicely. Consider it his “Show Me What You Got.”

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I don’t get the comparison to “Show Me What You Got.” That’s my favorite Jay-Z video to date.

05.06.09 at 9:43 pm

AmpGeez a.k.a. AG Da Gooseman

Can’t understand why they cut that intro. The way the album goes right into “Mafia Music” threw me off at first.

05.06.09 at 9:50 pm

Big Fonz

Um yeah, Medellin aint really that bad. No real reason to be scared to go out there.

Most of the women in Colombia look like that. That’s why I went to get my wife from down there. Medellin is known for most of their women being fake, as in fake titties, fake ass, all that. They real vain down there. It’s all good though, they still fine.

Video would have been better if they would’ve gone to Cartagena. Still pretty good though.